I decided that I wanted to attach my new collages onto black canvas stretched around stretcher bars.
Easy, I thought.
A couple of years ago when I first started doing this, my dear husband got me a stapler...my hand is not strong enough to use the regular staple guns so he went out on a quest for me...to find a stapler that I could use and that would work well.
He brought home an electric one but the staples didn't go all the way in to the stretcher bars. So then he kept on looking and finally brought home an air stapler...one that uses compressed air to fire the staple. It is really cool and shoots out these wicked looking staples.
I can use it at home on the back porch because the huge air compressor is outside and I have a long hose to connect the stapler to the air compressor.
However, it is rainy and cold outside and I have the perfect set up at my studio for doing this...the fabric, a place to cut the fabric, the sewing machine, the stretcher bars, a big, high table to work on, etc. Plus it doesn't rain inside...it may get cold but if I am moving around it isn't too bad.
So last week I decided to stop by Home Depot and get an electric stapler. Found a good one and got a couple of boxes of staples that the person told me would fit the stapler.
It was in my trunk and before I could get it out, my husband saw it and got upset that I had purchased a stapler without discussing it with him....well, he still had the original electric stapler from before. It is a Stanley but I needed staples. So I went off to the Ace Hardware to get them and came home with a couple of boxes of staples that seemed to work. However, when I got down to the studio, they just jammed in the stapler. So I pulled out the stapler that was still in my trunk and loaded it with the staples that were supposed to fit it....nope, just spat out staples two at a time...
So, I have one piece of fabric with the collage sewn one and two staples holding it to the stretcher bars.
Decided that I just could not face Home Depot to take the staples back today to exchange them so will do so tomorrow.
And I had so hoped to get these five collages done...finished, wired and everything....ughhhhhhh!
This seems to be the way things have been going for me. Something that shouldn't take very long seems to take way too much time!
Ah well, tomorrow is another day.
Easy, I thought.
A couple of years ago when I first started doing this, my dear husband got me a stapler...my hand is not strong enough to use the regular staple guns so he went out on a quest for me...to find a stapler that I could use and that would work well.
He brought home an electric one but the staples didn't go all the way in to the stretcher bars. So then he kept on looking and finally brought home an air stapler...one that uses compressed air to fire the staple. It is really cool and shoots out these wicked looking staples.
I can use it at home on the back porch because the huge air compressor is outside and I have a long hose to connect the stapler to the air compressor.
However, it is rainy and cold outside and I have the perfect set up at my studio for doing this...the fabric, a place to cut the fabric, the sewing machine, the stretcher bars, a big, high table to work on, etc. Plus it doesn't rain inside...it may get cold but if I am moving around it isn't too bad.
So last week I decided to stop by Home Depot and get an electric stapler. Found a good one and got a couple of boxes of staples that the person told me would fit the stapler.
It was in my trunk and before I could get it out, my husband saw it and got upset that I had purchased a stapler without discussing it with him....well, he still had the original electric stapler from before. It is a Stanley but I needed staples. So I went off to the Ace Hardware to get them and came home with a couple of boxes of staples that seemed to work. However, when I got down to the studio, they just jammed in the stapler. So I pulled out the stapler that was still in my trunk and loaded it with the staples that were supposed to fit it....nope, just spat out staples two at a time...
So, I have one piece of fabric with the collage sewn one and two staples holding it to the stretcher bars.
Decided that I just could not face Home Depot to take the staples back today to exchange them so will do so tomorrow.
And I had so hoped to get these five collages done...finished, wired and everything....ughhhhhhh!
This seems to be the way things have been going for me. Something that shouldn't take very long seems to take way too much time!
Ah well, tomorrow is another day.
1 comment:
Liked the story, the husbands are all the same and so are we:)))
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